 | Edmund Spenser - Ireland - 1763 - 310 pages
...and plentiful Countrey fuddenly left void of Man and Beaft ; yet fure in all that War, there perifhed not many by the Sword, but all by the Extremity of Famine, which they themfelves had wrought. EudoK. It is a wonder that you tell, and morcto be wondered how it fhould fo... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and VOL. i. 3 q beast."* The other provinces had no Spencer to record the favours conferred on them by... | |
 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left »oid of man and beast. — Slate of Inland, p. 158. the cause, and means, -which were found and devised... | |
 | the rev john graham - 1817 - 594 pages
...feast, for a time, yet not being able to continue there-whbal, in a short space of time there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful...country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet in that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine which they themselves... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue lonj therewithal, that in short space, there were none almost left and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." &c.» O Nial, deserted by his adherents, and destitute of resources, began now to think seriously of... | |
 | Ireland - 1816 - 680 pages
...feast for a time, yet not being able to continue there withal, in a short space of time there were none almost left; and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void both of man and beast: yet in that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity... | |
 | John Lawless - Ireland - 1823 - 362 pages
...as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in a short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." Such is the description of the desolation and misery depicted on one of the fairest portions of Ireland... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Botany Bay (N.S.W.) - 1824 - 404 pages
...flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast*." The authors of this calamity reaped from it the expected fruits. Five hundred and seventy-four thousand... | |
 | 1824 - 624 pages
...flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue them withal, that in short space there "as none almost left; and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." — State of Ireland, 1681. Ireland, when the domestic tumults of the great lords of the pale involved... | |
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... they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the... 
